2009年5月1日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Hong Kong isolates hotel after 1st swine flu case (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 06:52 PM PDT

Medical staff wearing protective gear and masks are seen at the Metro Park Hotel in Hong Kong Friday, May 1, 2009 to prevent the possible spread of swine flu. A Mexican tourist visiting Hong Kong was diagnosed with swine flu Friday in Asia's first confirmed case of the disease. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - Hong Kong quarantined hundreds of hotel guests and workers Friday after a tourist from Mexico tested positive for swine flu, Asia's first confirmed case of the disease.

Swine flu may be less potent than first feared (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 06:50 PM PDT

A medic wearing protective gear attends to a sick child carried by her mother in the emergency area where people with swine flu-like symptoms are checked at the naval hospital in Mexico City, Friday May 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The swine flu outbreak that has alarmed the world for a week now appears less ominous, with the virus showing little staying power in the hardest-hit cities and scientists suggesting it lacks the genetic fortitude of past killer bugs. President Barack Obama even voiced hope Friday that it may turn out to be no more harmful than the average seasonal flu.

Tamiflu stockpiles vary widely throughout world (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 01:19 PM PDT

Tamiflu, an antiviral drug being used to combat swine flu, is seen in a Toronto health clinic on Thursday April 30, 2009. Affluent countries like Japan, Britain and the United States have enough Tamiflu and similar medicines to reach about a quarter to half their populations, while developing countries like Guatemala, Indonesia and India have enough for only about 1 percent of their people or less. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Darren Calabrese)AP - Poor countries likely to suffer most in a swine flu outbreak have the smallest stockpiles of antiviral medicines to fight it.

Britain chooses first-ever female poet laureate (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 09:17 AM PDT

Writer and poet Carol Ann Duffy poses for photographs at John Rylands Library in Manchester, England, Friday, May 1, 2009, after being named as Britain's poet laureate - the first woman to hold a post that has been filled by William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes. A witty and popular writer whose work is widely taught in British schools, Duffy is also the first openly gay laureate. Duffy said she had thought 'long and hard' before accepting the job, which now has a 10-year term.(AP Photo/Paul Thomas)AP - The centuries-old post of British poet laureate, bard to kings and queens, has been held by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes — but never, until Friday, by a woman.

Mexicans turn to humor, creativity to endure flu (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 11:18 AM PDT

A man wears a decorated protective mask as he talks on his cell phone in downtown Mexico City, Monday, April 27, 2009. A fatal strain of swine flu has been detected in Mexico while the virus has been confirmed or suspected in at least a half-dozen other countries. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Televisa is cutting all "nonessential" kisses from its soap operas. A song called the "Influenza Cumbia" is climbing the charts. Cringe-worthy swine flu jokes are spreading faster than the illness ever could.

Couple arrested for sex on lawn at Windsor Castle (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 06:06 PM PDT

AP - Queen Elizabeth II was at home at Windsor Castle, the sentries who guard her were on duty, and the large park surrounding the magnificent building was full of tourists on a Sunday afternoon. So it didn't take long for people to realize that something was out of order when an inebriated couple arrived from a nearby restaurant and began having sex on a grass bank outside the castle, according to witnesses.

April deadliest month for US in Iraq in 7 months (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 06:43 PM PDT

Children check the damage on a car destroyed by a car bomb explosion in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Hurriyah, Iraq, Thursday, April 30, 2009. A parked car bomb apparently targeting an Iraqi army patrol exploded late Wednesday in the northern Shiite stronghold of Hurriyah, killing two people and wounding eight others, police said. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)AP - The U.S. death toll for April rose to 18, the military said Friday, making it the deadliest in seven months for American forces in Iraq. The sharp increase from the previous month came as a series of bombings also pushed Iraqi deaths to their highest level this year.

Mexico's swine flu death toll at 16 (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 06:42 PM PDT

A doctor talks to a mother before her child is being tested for signs of influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly referred to as swine flu, at a mobile clinic in Mexico City April 30, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge DanAP - Mexico has raised its confirmed swine flu death toll from 15 to 16 and says the total number of confirmed cases of the virus had risen to 397.

Darfur refugees urge AU to pursue Beshir arrest: report (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir addresses a rally during his visit to Zalingei in western Darfur in April 2009. Sudenese refugees urged a high-level African Union mission to speed up the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Beshir for war crimes, Chadian state radio said Friday.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Sudenese refugees urged a high-level African Union mission to speed up the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for President Omar al-Beshir for war crimes, Chadian state radio said Friday.

Gates: Tough to ask for more troops in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 06:45 PM PDT

AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it would be difficult to request more U.S. troops in Afghanistan in six to 12 months.

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